Hello!

As it's new year, I've resolved to start writing a blog. I can't promise it will be of any more than the lowest level of entertainment value but I'll give it my best shot.
I just came home from Spain, where I spent a week on the beautiful, sunny and absolutely freezing island of Menorca. The fabulous Orquestra de Cambra Illa de Menorca let me loose on them for a Christmas programme, made up of all sorts of things ranging from a Bach concerto to Carmen Fantasy, in front of two of the friendliest audiences I have met in a long while. The first concert was so cold several of us nearly died from frostbite but we pulled through and it ended up being brilliant fun.
Why are the Spanish so friendly? I would be too if I lived somewhere with such nice weather but it's more than that.
I was shown around a wonderful little fishing town by three members of the Felix family, all of whom play in the orchestra. Everything there was tiny- the houses, the steps, the pathways, I was led to believe the people were tiny too but that turned out not to be true.
I miss it already and I can't wait to go back.

Now I'm at home, surrounded by boxes, preparing for our temporary move to Paris.......